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Premium WordPress theme designers WooThemes has releasedTumblr2WP, a new tool to help users port their content from the increasingly unreliable Tumblr platform, importing it into a self-hosted WordPress blog. Tumblr has experienced huge growth over the past year, but it has also been plagued withscaling issues. It’s increasing downtime frequency even led to the Tumblr team implementing its own version of Twitter’s Fail Whale; the Tumbeasts. The premium WordPress theme company waited for the release of WordPress 3....

Tumblr user William Tildesley, a long-time user of the content-sharing platform, recently emailed Tumblr’s founder David Karp to express his disappointment at the network’s downtime issues, to be met with a discouraging reply that ended with the words: “Please go away”. It’s no secret that Tumblr has been experiencing its fair share of scaling issues, the service has boomed substantially over the past year and is facilitating200m pageviews a week. Customers, including Mr Tildesley, have found their Tumblogs inaccessible and features not working properly, leading the company to introduce its own version of Twitter’s Fail Whale, theTumbeasts....

Welcome to our ninthTumblr Tuesday, where every Tuesday we celebrate our love of Tumblr by interviewing the mastermind behind a blog.Tumblr, a New York City based startup, is like the FFFFound for the rest of the world. It’s as shareable and fast-paced as Twitter but populated with more in-depth text and rich images. On September 9th, 2011,we reportedthat at an average of 37.5 million daily posts, Tumblr reached its first mega milestone of 10 billion posts....

Welcome to our sixthTumblr Tuesday, where every Tuesday we celebrate our love of Tumblr by interviewing the mastermind behind the blog.Tumblr, a New York City based startup, is like the FFFFound for the rest of the world. It’s as shareable and fast-paced as Twitter but populated with more in-depth text and rich images. On September 9th, 2011,we reportedthat at an average of 37.5 million daily posts, Tumblr reached its first mega milestone of 10 billion posts....

Welcome to our thirdTumblr Tuesday, where every Tuesday we celebrate our love of Tumblr.Tumblr, a New York City based startup, is like the FFFFound for the rest of the world. It’s as shareable and fast-paced as Twitter but populated with more in-depth text and rich images. Often those rich images come in the form of food, gooey treats, tasty apps and mouth watering entrees. To track down the top 5 food Tumblrs, we reached out to Amy Cao, a food editor at Tumblr and the head of community atFoodspotting, a San Francisco and New York City based startup that delivers a delicious app for food photographers and hungry voyeurs alike....